Carol’s poems have received awards in several contests, including CAA’s National Capital Writing Contest. Carol featured as a Tree Reading Series’ Hot Ottawa Voice, 2012. She has served on the board for Arts Carleton Place, Canadian Authors Association-NCR, and co-directed Ottawa’s Tree Reading Series. From 2008-2013, she coordinated CAA-NCR’s poetry group. In 2018, Carol was poetry judge for CAA-NCR’s National Capital Writing Contest. Carol is Ottawa manager for The Ontario Poetry Society and a selector for Bywords.ca